Télécharger le livre :  Nurturing Sustainable Prosperity in West Africa

“Through the lens of personal experience, Dr. Armah walks us through the scholarly research on culture, corruption and economics as it applies to the Ghanaian experience. We are left with a partially disappointing picture of a country wealthy in people and resources,...
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Parution : 2020-02-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Performance in Democracies and Autocracies

There are considerable differences in environmental performance and outcomes across both democracies and autocracies, but there is little understanding of how levels of democracy and autocracy influence environmental performance. This book examines whether analysing the...
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Parution : 2020-02-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri

This book covers Mai Masri’s three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-02-14
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema
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Télécharger le livre :  The Phantom Comics and the New Left

This book is about the Phantom in Sweden, or, more correctly, about Sweden in the Phantom. Robert Aman uncovers how a peripheral American superhero – created in 1936 by Lee Falk – that has been accused of both racism and sexism has become a national concern in a country...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-02-14
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
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Télécharger le livre :  Queering Narratives of Domestic Violence and Abuse

This book is the first to focus on violent and/or ‘abusive’ behaviours in lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender, non-binary gender or genderqueer people’s intimate relationships. It provides fresh empirical data from a comprehensive mixed-methods study and novel...
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Parution : 2020-02-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Sugarcane Labor Migration in Brazil

This book examines the experiences of seasonal, migrant sugarcane workers in Brazil, analyzing the deep-seated inequalities pervasive in contemporary Brazil. Education, employment, income, health, and relative political power are forefront in this study of the living...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-02-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Speech Accommodation in Student Presentations

This book examines student presentations as a genre of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), and analyses the elements of speech and audience accommodation which make a successful presentation. Offering an antidote to the audience-centric approach to presentation design...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-02-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Welfare Doesn't Work

This book explores the incentives and effects of modern welfare policy, contrasted with outcomes of global basic income pilots in the past seventy years. The author contends that paternalistic and counterproductive eligibility rules in the modern American welfare...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-02-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Protest Diffusion

This book traces the mobilization process leading up to the January 25 Uprising, and furthers our understanding of the largely unexpected diffusion of protest during this Egyptian Revolution. Focusing on the role of the so-called “Cairo-based political opposition,” this...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-02-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Multinational Banks and Foreign Expansion Decisions

This book presents a systematic review of the literature on the foreign expansion decisions of multinational banks (MNBs). With today's increasing level of globalization, many banks have expanded their activities internationally to take advantage of new opportunities in...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-02-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Middle East Christianity

Drawing from theories of world society and from historical-sociological theories the book studies the past, present, and future of Middle East Christianity. It focuses on the interplay between local practices and post-colonial entanglements in global modernity. The...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-01-31
Collection : The Modern Muslim World
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Télécharger le livre :  Philanthropy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Intended as an essential introduction to philanthropy, this book provides a balanced, analytical, interdisciplinary overview of a complex, and often controversial, topic. Using case studies to illustrate the narrative, it covers everything from the history of...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-01-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Colin Sumner

This book explores the work of criminologist Colin Sumner. It re-presents his arguments and ideas on Marxism, ideology, censure, deviance, crime, underdevelopment, social control and the media; situating them in their wider social context. Moxon argues that Sumner...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-01-28
Collection : Palgrave Pioneers in Criminology
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Télécharger le livre :  Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime

This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientific knowledge and genetic technology, Machado and Granja offer a unique perspective on...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-01-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Automation and Human Solidarity

This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the service sector of economies that have so far relied on service jobs to sustain levels of employment. It examines how...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-01-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Islam and Turks in Belgium

Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders, Islam and Turks in Belgium examines the interdependence between Muslim community and association. With a focus on social groups, religious structures and circles within Turkish populations,...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-01-23
Collection : New Directions in Islam
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Télécharger le livre :  Reconfiguring Islamophobia

This book investigates the contested phenomena of Islamophobia, exploring the dichotomous relationship that exists between Islamophobia as a political concept and Islamophobia as a ‘real’ and tangible discriminatory phenomenon. In doing so, this book improves...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-01-22
Collection : Palgrave Hate Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Diversity Management in Places and Times of Tensions

This book focuses on managing diversity in regions and times of political tensions. Using Israel as an example, the author investigates diversity management in the socio-political context of a protracted national conflict – an area that remains largely unexplored....
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-01-21

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Télécharger le livre :  A Sense of Viidu

This book is the first compilation of the experiences of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia. It explores the theme of home—from what is left behind to what is brought or (re)created in a new space—and all the complex processes that ensue as a result of leaving a...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-01-20

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Télécharger le livre :  An Introduction to Economics

The book compares neoclassical and Marxian economics and points out that both the schools of thought seek to analyze how a capitalist society functions.The authors show that the neoclassical economics vindicates capitalism and prescribes policies that further the...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-01-14

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